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    1. Eric Weinstein‏Verified account @EricRWeinstein 28 Jan 2019

      1/ I’ve been noticing a ubiquitous technique recently upon which I have seen little commented. “Punchable face”, #killallmen, “Open Borders”, “Tax is Theft”, “Believe Women”, “Free markets”, “Free Speech” and uptalking are examples. I want to explain here what I see linking them.

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    2. Eric Weinstein‏Verified account @EricRWeinstein 28 Jan 2019

      2/ The technique involves bundling an attacking position and a retreating position where the retreat is low cost and reasonable while the attack is wildly simplistic, irresponsible and generally too expensive to maintain. The attack is frequently literal & the retreat figurative.

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    3. Eric Weinstein‏Verified account @EricRWeinstein 28 Jan 2019

      3/ As @ezraklein pointed out for the attack position #KillAllMen dripping with sexism & misandry, the retreat position is “it would be nice if the world sucked less for women”. Likewise “Open Borders” can collapse all the way down to “I don’t want to see immigrants scapegoated”.pic.twitter.com/ldMxgXH6ZS

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    4. Eric Weinstein‏Verified account @EricRWeinstein 28 Jan 2019

      4/ Uptalking seems to be a speech pattern that has, among other benefits, figured out how to make an aggressive statement which would normally be costly in the underlying text for the price of just kinda maybe sorta asking a much less expensive (leading) question with one’s tone.

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    5. Eric Weinstein‏Verified account @EricRWeinstein 28 Jan 2019

      5/ “Tax is theft” is a broad clean insane attack on nationhood, but if you bring up the problem of military protection as a well known public good & market defect, you get told that “Tax is Teft” is just a plea for smaller more prudent government. Okay. So why are we doing this?

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    6. Eric Weinstein‏Verified account @EricRWeinstein 28 Jan 2019

      6/ In the previous examples, the literal position has been the aggressive one, but that’s not even always true. Sometime I hear “Feminism is simply the proposition that women are equal.” which would be the retreat position with which only a loon would be tempted to argue.

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    7. Eric Weinstein‏Verified account @EricRWeinstein 28 Jan 2019

      7/ Let’s call amalgams of attack and retreat Split-Level Arguments. We need to stop allowing these gambits to go unnoticed. They are like Navy SEALS dressed up as adorable toddlers. If you‘re advancing “Free Markets”, pay the price for the simplicity you just bought when pressed.

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    8. Eric Weinstein‏Verified account @EricRWeinstein 28 Jan 2019

      End/ Let’s come up with language to make it very expensive to repeatedly push for something simple, clear & wrong as if we were just saying something reasonable & nuanced. If you’ve noticed this trend, send me examples or anyone else’s name for it. Thx! 🙏 #SplitLevelArguments

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Jan 2019
      Replying to @EricRWeinstein

      This is mostly just Motte & Bailey, is it not? https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-brick-in-the-motte/ …

      8:24 AM - 28 Jan 2019
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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Jan 2019
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          yeah

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        1. Andrew Cox‏ @coxandrew 28 Jan 2019
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          ☝️I was going to point out the same article.

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